"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."
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"A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom."
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"You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually."
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"Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else."
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"I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw."
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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
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"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."
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"When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?"
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"We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one."
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"Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy"
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"Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty."
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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
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"When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain."
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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
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"Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well."
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"Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still."
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"People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway."
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"Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of."
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